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Studios Find A Backdoor Into Shorter Theatrical Release Windows

History may remember this past summer’s blockbuster season more as the one when studios successfully shortened the theatrical window by three weeks, rather than as the one in which numerous $200 million tentpole films failed at the box office. Sure, the latter seems to be getting all the press…

Honda Campaign Helps Drive-Ins Convert To Digital

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh2ULhXtqYU[/youtube] In film school I was taught how extremely effective a “ticking clock” can be in storytelling, especially when used in suspense movies. Now, this plot device is being employed to…

Krugman & Cringley on Ballmer & Microsoft’s ‘Failure’

There is an apocryphal tale of Bill Gates giving a speech to assembled Hollywood executives when he was still head of Microsoft, which ends with him telling them “and I guess you guys also have a problem with piracy.” While software piracy may have trumped film-related piracy in the earl…

Bagdad Theater & Pub

LA Times Shines Spotlight On Portland’s Bagdad Theater & Pub

You know how sometimes when a brand new word enters your lexicon you wind up hearing the vocabulary word being used in all sorts of different situations? It leaves you wondering how you never noticed the word before, or if, unaware of its true meaning and definition, you had simply ignored it altoge…

Cinema Advertising Shows No Sign of Ageing at Cannes Lions

[youtube]http://youtu.be/PE_kqk8CXEM[/youtube] Cinema advertising celebrated its 60th year at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity by positioning itself as the “magical, mysterious and creative media platform” of choice. The well attended seminar on Monday the 17th of June at the Cann…

Luxe RealD

Can RealD Rival IMAX In The Premium Large Format (PLF) Market?

With Cinema Europe currently underway in Barcelona, two trends for premium cinema experiences that pull in opposite direction are hot topics for exhibitors gathering in Spain. The first is towards smaller, intimate venues that typically serve fine food and wine, as exemplified by The Electric in Lon…

Tim Richards of Vue Entertainment

Canadian Investors Double Down With Purchase of Vue Entertainment

There is an old proverb popularized by the 19th century English writer W. E. Hickson that states “If at first you don’t succeed, Try, try, try again.” It seems Alberta Investment Management Corp. (AIMCo) and OMERS Private Equity – the investment division of Ontario Municipal…

Kodak 35mm Motion Picture Film

Kodak Claims ‘Film Is Not Dead’

With nearly 99,000 cinema screens (out of roughly 120,000 worldwide) having already converted to digital, combined with the number of film and television productions now shooting with high-end digital cameras, the need for 35mm film stock is dissolving rapidly. Agfa stopped manufacturing all of thei…

Google's Comparison of 2012 Box Office Index and Film-Related Search Index

Dissecting Google’s Box Office Prediction Study

Predicting box office receipts for a motion picture release, whether for opening weekend or an entire theatrical run, is anything but an exact science. Leave it to the good folks at Google, those lords of the algorithm, to rely on math rather than fuzzy logic when coming up with a better formula for…

Can Social Media Service Vine Help Market Content?

After officially launching this past January, Twitter's new social media service Vine, has begun to find some traction. Vine, which allows users to post looping six second videos, now accounts for more daily shares of media on Twitter than Instagram, the photo sharing mobile app which formerly reign…